"We must beware of our own biases. One of the reasons why many people are dissatisfied with this ending (of the book of Job where he is rewarded materially) is because in the contemporary literary world ambiguity in moral questions is universally revered, while moral certainty is almost as universally despised. The modern mood enjoys novels and plays where the rights and wrongs get confused, where every decision is a mixture of right and wrong, truth and error, where heroes and antiheroes reverse their roles. Why this infauation with ambiguity? It is regarded as more mature. Clear-cut answers are written off as immature. The pluralism of our age delights in moral ambiguity - but only as long as it costs nothing. Devotion to contemporary moral ambiguity is extraordinarily self-centered. It demands freedom from God so that it can do whatever it wants. But when the suffering starts, the same self-centered focus on my world and my interested, rather ironically, wants God to provide answers of sparkling clarity."
- D.A. Carson, How Long O Lord?, p. 154
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